I’ve always said that when people make a big deal out of the number of executive orders a president signs, they’re missing the point. The number doesn’t matter, whether they have the authority matters. But Trump is on pace for a huge number of them after he made a big deal out of Obama signing a lot of them. (more…) Read more
Trump’s Cowardly ‘Withdrawal’ from Iran Deal
October 14, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
As expected, Trump announced that he would refuse to certify that Iran is in compliance with the nuclear weapons agreement we and five other nations signed with that country last year. This despite the fact that the UN and his own cabinet officers and intelligence agencies have certified that they are in full compliance. (more…) Read more
Christian Fascist Blames Vegas Shooting on Antifa
October 14, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
David Whitney, the Christian Reconstructionist and chaplain for Michael Peroutka’s badly misnamed Institute on the Constitution, says that the Vegas shooter was a member of Antifa and that this is the beginning of that group committing mass violence against Christians. (more…) Read more
Who’s Possessed by Demons Today?
October 14, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
It’s time to spin the big wheel of wingnuttia and find out who is possessed by demons today. And it won’t even involve Gordon Klingenschmitt, the demon whisperer. We’ll start with the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who says Eminem’s freestyle anti-Trump rap the other day was “demonic.” (more…) Read more
Trump Dismantling Obamacare Piece by Piece
October 14, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
After gutting the contraception mandate and issuing an executive order undermining the standards on insurance policies, Trump struck his most damaging blow yet on Obamacare, ending the payment of subsidies to insurance companies to help keep those policies affordable in the exchanges. (more…) Read more
Klayman Has Another Conspiracy Theory
October 13, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
Larry Klayman, the dumbest lawyer in America not named Mat Staver, has yet another conspiracy theory, this time about the shooting in Las Vegas. With no evidence whatsoever, he says the shooter might have been an FBI informant and that the government is covering that up. (more…) Read more
Union Files Grievance Against Jerry Jones
October 13, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
A union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for threatening not to let his players on the field if they protest racial injustice during the national anthem. But it isn’t the NFL Players Union, it’s a local union. (more…) Read more
School Refuses to Punish Student for Racial Slur, Implied Threat
October 13, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
In yet another horrifying case of a high school student being blatantly racist against a fellow student and facing virtually no consequences, The Woodlands High School in Texas is doing virtually nothing after one student told another “we should have hung all u niggas while we had the chance.” (more…) Read more
Weinstein and Those Who Protect Him and Men Like Him
October 13, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
Scumbag Harvey Weinstein has finally been exposed for what was always an open secret in Hollywood, his constant harassment, if not actual sexual assault, of actresses wanting parts in his movies. Jim Rutenberg points out that he had an army of professionals to help him keep it quiet. (more…) Read more
Trump Continues to Single Out Puerto Rico After Hurricane
October 13, 2017 By Ed Brayton 0 Comments
The disparity in how Donald Trump has responded to massive hurricane damage in Puerto Rico compared to Houston and Florida is startling, though not at all surprising. The latest example is his warning to Puerto Rico that federal workers can’t stay there to help forever: (more…) Read more
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